He heard (and dreamed AEolus, on
The moon's gold horn, was blowing)
The music of far Helicon
A-down Parnassus flowing.
And, with that strange sad ecstasy
Of men, who, slowly sailing,
Behold a mermaid in the sea,
Below their lantern-railing.
Spark like a star within the wave --
So he, with yearning, listened,
while high above his shad'wy cave
The eye of Venus glistened.
The hawk, entowered in the sky
The lonely lord of Heaven,
At day-break saw him solit'ry;
And yet again at even.
First published in The Bulletin, 23 September 1909;
and later in
From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, 1964.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
The moon's gold horn, was blowing)
The music of far Helicon
A-down Parnassus flowing.
And, with that strange sad ecstasy
Of men, who, slowly sailing,
Behold a mermaid in the sea,
Below their lantern-railing.
Spark like a star within the wave --
So he, with yearning, listened,
while high above his shad'wy cave
The eye of Venus glistened.
The hawk, entowered in the sky
The lonely lord of Heaven,
At day-break saw him solit'ry;
And yet again at even.
First published in The Bulletin, 23 September 1909;
and later in
From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, 1964.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
